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There are heavy obstacles that even the best-intentioned company faces in breaking discriminatory hiring patterns; the employment charts for Mississippi P and L could conceivably mean that the company had been trying hard but had not yet made headway. Significantly, the Federal records suggest exactly the opposite case. According to officials in the Equal Employment Commission, both Middle South and its subsidiaries have failed several times to submit employment reports, to adopt affirmative-action plans, or to put any muscle behind their vague claims of good intent...
...beginning, many party leaders hotly criticized the Soviets. Now, though most still consider the invasion a dreadful mistake, they argue that continued protest can do no good and should cease. Many party members, especially intellectuals, refuse to be silent; they argue that the Communists can make little headway among voters in the West as long as they remain subservient to Moscow. Nonetheless, says British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz, "the trend is toward more internal control, clamping down on heretics and making local orthodoxy supreme...
...result, canvassers from every Indian party have been venturing into the country's 565,000 small hamlets and villages in hopes of tapping the Untouchable vote. In West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the Communists have made considerable headway with promises of liberal land handouts. Indira has a trump card of her own: the exception to the image of the hopeless harijan, Food and Agriculture Minister Jag-jivan Ram, an old Gandhi and Untouchable leader who last December became Indira's party president...
...Fallows '70, outgoing CRIMSON President, and some of his predecessors began to notice a change in mood among potential black candidates in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. A determined effort was made to recruit blacks the next Fall, but made little headway. One black student from Radcliffe, trying out for the CRIMSON, was assigned to report on Afro affairs. She got caught in the conflicting demands of black solidarity and CRIMSON reporting...
...rising fears of recession show that the Administration is at last making headway in its difficult fight against inflationary psychology. All year, Nixon's economic lieutenants have been trying to create a degree of uncertainty in the minds of businessmen, labor and consumers about the prospect for continued prosperity. Many experts find the present outlook no cause for alarm. Arthur Okun, the former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, calls the chance of either a recession or a continued boom "a long shot." By his handicapping, the Government stands a 50% chance of bringing the inflation rate down...